Dear Fellow Laborers,

March 2006

Praise the Lord for the exciting things He is doing in Russia!

Witnessing to Worker Who Has Stroke

While remodeling our apartment I worked with five main workers. One of the oldest and nicest workers was named Samval. I witnessed to him briefly but he was not very interested. He was more interested in telling me about the nice high ceilings he installed back in his home in Armenia that were like “heaven” to him. A few days ago, I was informed by Misha (the good contractor we met and befriended that I wrote about two months ago) that while we were gone renewing our visas, Samval had a serious stroke, losing the use of the right side of his body first and then while in the hospital, also losing the left side. Samval was sent back to Armenia before we returned. Please pray for this dear man (as we witness through the mail to him) that his understanding of Heaven would go a little higher than his own ceilings.

Praise the Lord for His provision of visas to allow us back in to the country to work on our residency.

Close Call With Visas

Thank you so much for praying for us concerning our recent trip across the border for new visas. The Lord blessed despite the fact that I did not even know how much of a need we were in. The situation was like this. We have an invitation from an organization, which is an official document that allows us to receive our visas. However, we needed to get a different type of invitation from an individual person this time in order to receive temporary residency. I just found out, that for some reason the office where we turned in this request for an official invitation from an individual, never turned that request in to the regional office. Praise the Lord that we had back up invitations, to get back into the country, and are now sorting out the situation. Right now it looks like we will have to take an other trip across the border in late April to get this different type of visa, so that we can qualify for temporary residency. Once we have temporary residency, we won’t be required to leave again for an other three years. Also this will give us the chance of getting permanent residency. Please pray with us concerning this need. No one can know all of the conflicts between government offices here, only the Lord Jesus can steer us clear of the obstacles in the way.

Prayer Requests
• For Aleksei to stay faithful to discipleship.
• That we will get temporary residency by May.
• That funds will come in to buy land for a church.

Yours in Christ,
Adam, Angela, Alex, and Amelia